I have taken to watching old western movies. Last night I watched Unforgiven
a main theme was that guns must be surrendered and then law enforcement brutally enforced the regulation and ruled by fear and intimidation
The concept of towns and sheriff’s making and enforcing such ordinances is featured throughout the saga of the American West. Waytt Erp made his reputation by the ordinances. The fictional Virgil Cole is just such a lawman. That was conditional on taking the job
One wonders, why was n’t the second Amendment raised in the 1870’s?
The few towns that had such ordinances are the exception, not the rule.
The left has made much of a few local ordinances that did not last very long. They were never challenged in court.
Today, we have a similar situation. There are a number of local ordinaces that are passed which are never challenged.
I notice that the first example that you give is a fictional one. That is because the disarmists want to create the impression that you have; that such ordinances were widespread and common.
One wonders, why was n’t the second Amendment raised in the 1870’s?
Actually, it was. There were state laws that were challenged. The Court ruled that the Second Amendment only applied to the Federal Government, not the States.
It was a reaction to reconstruction, and essentially nullified the fourteenth amendment, which had been passed, in part, specifically to enforce Second Amendment rights for freed slaves.
It was not until about 50 years after the Civil war that the Supreme Court started enforcing the Bill of Rights on the States through the Second Amendment.
State courts had done so prior to 1830, but about 1830 the Supreme Court ruled that States were not restricted by the Bill of Rights, another major reason that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed after the War Between the States.